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Friday, 31 January 2014

Hello everyone, time to announce the winners from our Ribbons, Buttons and Bows challenge but not before saying a big thank you for all your wonderful entries in January, we certainly saw some fabby creations and pretty ribbons and buttons along the way.

So our winners who will be able to choose a lovely collection of design sheets from Igancio's Nicecrane Designs is.............................

Saturday, 18 January 2014

Welcome! It is time for a bit of mid-month inspiration from the DT. Sally has made us another card
using the incredible Jessie Wilcox images from Nicecrane. She tells us that she loves
them because they are such delightful images of children reading.

Over
the next few months our lovely DT are going to feature some of their
favourite cards and projects that they have made over the years. This
month it is Sally's turn.

Sally
says "Back in August I created this card after seeing some amazing
sunsets whilst on holiday in Wales. My daughter Meg persuaded me to make
a tutorial for it on youtube, which she filmed and edited for me, and
you can find it here: Ink duster tutorial #2

Hopefully
I have been able to show people how to use ink dusters effectively,
particularly if they haven't seen them demonstrated before. I use my ink
dusters on every card I make, and find them very useful for adding
shading to printed papers and embossing, as well as plain card."

There is still plenty of time to get your entries in for this months challenge. We are really enjoying seeing your superb cards featuring ribbons, buttons and bows.

Sunday, 5 January 2014

I hope you are all ready to get crafting after the holiday season and will join in with this months theme of..........

******Ribbon, Buttons and Bows******

It can be just one of these or a combination of all three, all we ask is that we see some of these elements of your artwork. Remember you can enter any form of hand crafted project and can enter up to three times.

Our wonderful sponsor this month is Ignacio from Nicecrane Designs, if you are not familiar with his products do pop over to his store and take a look at his fabulous Vintage inspired design sheets both pre coloured or ready for you to add your own colour and personalisation. Igancio adds to and updates his products on a regular basis so you can always find something new and alluring to temp you and all at very reasonable prices. He is offering one very lucky winner a £35 voucher to select products from his store.Several of the Design Team have used Nicecrane images on their artwork and you will find links to the design sheets they used below their names and also in the thumbnail photos below so you can go directly to Nicecrane's website to buy your own products.

We are very pleased to welcome Jean as our Guest Designer this month and she has created this lovely fresh and bright card for us..............

Friday, 3 January 2014

Happy New Year to you all, I hope your festive season was a good one and you are all ready for lots of crafting as we head into 2014.

Time to announce the winner and Top 3 from our December challenge which was another mega busy one with some awesome creations and I have to say that the DT's voting was very wide and varied this month and we struggled to come up with our final winner, but it had to be done and that person who will receive the fabulous collection of goodies from Visible Image is.............

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About our Challenge

Stamping Sensations is a monthly challenge and a new one will be posted on the first Sunday of every month.

All winners and Top 3 will be selected by a democratic voting system. As our DT have a wide variety of crafting styles we believe this system will offer an equal opportunity to all levels of crafting abilities.

Following EU guidelines, minors entering the challenge will not be selected for winners or top 3 spots in order to protect their identities.

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All artwork creations featured on this challenge blog are for inspiration only. Please do not directly copy the designs for any purpose unless you have sought the express permission from the person who created them and have the written proof to support that you have done so.